Bed Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal life and…

— Joanna Davidson Politano

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

— Janette Rallison

“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

Your life is a book and when Someone leaves its only the end of a chapter not the end of your story.

— Anonymous

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

Your life is a novel, every day is a page, and you have the power to make the story beautiful and go the way…

— Anonymous

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of…

— Anne Fadiman

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley